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Bug 709

Summary: Joystick subsystem does not generate events if video subsystem is not initialized.
Product: SDL Reporter: Hendrik van der Heijden <hvdh>
Component: joystickAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: minor    
Priority: P2 Keywords: target-1.2.14
Version: 1.2.13   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Windows (XP)   

Description Hendrik van der Heijden 2009-02-27 09:17:39 UTC 
In a project, i use SDL just for platform independent joystick input.

I can open my gamepad just fine, but there are no joystick events
if I use 
  SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_JOYSTICK);
instead of
  SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_JOYSTICK | SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
.
Comment 1 Ryan C. Gordon 2009-09-13 16:33:05 UTC 
Tagging this bug with "target-1.2.14" so we can try to resolve it for SDL 1.2.14.

Please note that we may choose to resolve it as WONTFIX. This tag is largely so we have a comprehensive wishlist of bugs to examine for 1.2.14 (and so we can close bugs that we'll never fix, rather than have them live forever in Bugzilla).

--ryan.
Comment 2 Sam Lantinga 2009-09-21 02:40:24 UTC 
The events are tied to the video system for historical reasons.  This is planned to be fixed in SDL 1.3.